War with America
THE following, from a correspondent of the Weekly Dispatch, affords evidence of the strongest nature to justify our suspicions, that ere this hostile operations have commenced between the beligerent…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1846
48 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
English Extracts. Gallant Capture of a Pirate Slaver. Nine Men Killed and Fourteen Wounded
A gallant and successful engagement has taken place on the west coast of Africa, between the boats of one of Her Majesty's ships and a large pirate slaver. The boats engaged in the affair belonged to the…
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The following anecdote of the last campaign against Circassia is related by the Augsburg Gazette, which inquires what hope of success can Russia entertain against a people who display such determined courage[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Poetry. Against the Lash:--"the Peasant Soldier."
Want drove him from his home, One sullen autumn eve; He loved too deeply all within, For any "taking leave."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Morning Chronicle. Saturday, February 7, 1846. Increased Probabilities of War!
THE first and most important duty of a professed political journalist is to pay close attention to foreign politics, comprising every circumstance which can, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Return of killed and wounded of the force under the command of Colonel Despard, 99th Regt., acting Colonel on the Staff, during the assault on Kowiti's pah, on the 11th January, 1846. Her Majesty's Ship Castor
Seven killed; ten seamen wounded; two marines wounded. Her Majesty's Ship North Star. Two seamen wounded, Mr. Murray, midshipman,…
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BY H.M.S. North Star, which arrived on Tuesday, we are in possession of the gratifying intelligence that the War in New Zealand is--for a season at all events --at an end. In an early number we shall enter at…
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THE following proclamation by Sir H. Hardinge, gives the reasons that have actuated the Government in the course that has been pursued…
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Not a single cloud floated over the clear blue sky, and the full effulgence of a September sun was reflected in the brightest gold from the dancing waters of the broad sea,whose glittering wavelets came rippling in with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War in New Zealand. (From the United Service Gazette.)
THE disastrous intelligence from New Zealand, which will be found in another part of our columns, cannot full to create an earnest sympathy for the fate of the gallant men who have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Morning Chronicle. Saturday, April 11, 1846. England's Position Relative to War and Peace
THE position which England occupies in relation to the other great powers of the age, is one which has no precedence or parallel in her history, replete as it is with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAR-SIGNS. (From the Spectator, November 29.)
IF the strength of the motives alone were regarded, it would not be easy to imagine an immediate or early war possible. But with nations, as with individuals, there are moods of…
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ALTHOUGH no really decisive and novel act has taken place in respect to the Oregon question, it has assumed a somewhat altered aspect. The official organ at Washington, though still in a vaunting tone, abates…
Continued on Trove, page 166 →Preparations for War--defence of Our Harbour
Le Mailre d' Armes.--" Je vous l'ai deja dit, tout le secret des armes ne consiste qu'en deux choses, à donner et à ne point recevoir; et comme je vous fit voir l'autre jour par raison demonstrative, il est impossible que vous receviez, si vous…
Continued on Trove, page 169 →The Morning Chronicle. Saturday, May 2, 1846. the Question of Questions—peace or War?
When England is at war, the whole world becomes a party in the conflict."—LORD CHATHAM. " The whole contest is between England and France. The whole world sometimes sides with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foreign Affairs.—present Prospects of War
HUMBLE as may be the pretensions of this journal, the indefatigable vigilance which it has exercised in observing the course of public events in Europe and America, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest English Extracts. Loss of a Man-of-war Steamer and Half Her Crew
Our private correspondent at Tangier, in a letter dated the 14th December, 1845, furnishes us with the following particulars of the loss of the"French steam vessel of war' Le Papin:-- "I have this moment beard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Soldier's Bride
During one severe season--a winter remarkable for its long and inclement frost, experienced with equal rigour throughout Italy, France, aud Germany, where the largest rivers were rapidly congealed, and people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, June 3, 1846. Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' War with America
ON the arrival of the Joseph Semes at Hobart Town, a report reached Launceston that war had been declared between England and America, and absurd as was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Progress of Ships of War at the Ports
The following is a list of vessels of war building and ordered to be built at the Royal Dockyards, with the progress made up to January 1, 1846:—…
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